Al-Qaida: Sympathizers aided abduction (Paul Johnson)

[UpInArms]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Saudi%20Kidnappers'%20Plot

CAIRO, Egypt -- The al-Qaida cell that kidnapped and killed American Paul M. Johnson Jr. said in an online periodical Sunday that sympathizers in the kingdom's security forces supplied it with police uniforms and vehicles and set up fake checkpoints to facilitate last week's abduction.

The details of the kidnapping appeared in Sawt al-Jihad, or Voice of Holy War, a semimonthly online periodical published by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. A separate article, the final one written by cell leader Abdulaziz al- Moqrin, killed in a shootout Friday night, justified Johnson's slaying.

The first article said militants wearing police uniforms and using police cars set up a fake checkpoint on al-Khadma Road, leading the airport, near Imam Mohammed bin Saud University.

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"A number of the cooperators who are sincere to their religion in the security apparatus donated those clothes and the police cars. We ask God to reward them and that they use their energy to serve Islam and the mujahedeen," the article read.

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[Jack Rabbit]

1. This is sad, but not surprising

It should be no surprise that opposition to the House of Saud in Arabia (can we please stop calling it Saudi Arabia, as if the country belongs to the Sauds by divine right?) has reached such a level that the nation's security can't be trusted.

The House of Saud is a corrupt autocratic tyranny. It's Wahabbism for the masses and hedonism for the elite. It does not deserve popular support among Arabians.

Of course, Osama and al Qaida are no answer. There needs to be a viable alternative to a corrupt set of bloody fascist thugs than a set of honest and straightforward bloody fascist thugs. Unfortunately, at the moment, there does not appear to be one.

[stickdog]

2. Semimonthly periodical?

Pen and/or sword?

[pinniped]

3. Is this the green light to invade Saudi Arabia?

n/t